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A SELF-MADE MAN.
ONE OF THE UNUSUAL PROD¬
UCTS OF GREAT BRITAIN.
l.ord Strathcona Has Lately Been Made
a Canadian Peer—Sketch of a Self
Made Man Who lias Risen to Wealth
and Power.
An English-Canadian baron, peer of
her majesty’s realm, chancellor of Mc¬
Gill University at Montreal, resident
governor of the Hudson Bay Company,
and also claiming the interest of the
United States as president of the Bank
of Montreal, Chicago, Montreal and
London, and as a director of the St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba rail¬
way and the Great Northern railway,
of Minnesota, is Lord Strathcona and
Mount Royal. His recent prominence
in connection with the governor gen¬
eralship lends additional interest to the
new member of the house of lords,
.whose projects have been almost as
intimately identified with the United
States as they have with Canada.
Since the tempestuous days of ’37 no
uuch interest, in the governor general¬
ship has been shown In Canada as has
been manifested the past year. After
the departure of Lord Dufferin the ap¬
pointment of the queen’s son-in-law to
Rideau hall seemed a nearer drawing
of the dominion to the throne of Eng¬
land. It amounted to little more than
a deserved compliment, however, and
things jogged along after the same old
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fashion until a Freneh-Caqadian lib
eral gave promise in his election to the
premiership of making radical chang
es. Would the mother land give Can
ada a successor to Lord Aberdeen from
among the representative men who
had wrought out the destiny of the
young nation? If such a departure
from British conservatism had been
made it was an open secret that vice
Tegal honors would have fallen to Lord
Strathcona and Mount Royal. The
time for such home rule has not come
in the dominion, however, and Lord
Minto. military secretary to Lord
Lansdowne during the Riel rebellion,
has received the approbation of Wind¬
sor castle and Canada! as Aberdeen’s
successor. But it does not alter the
fact that in London as high commis¬
sioner and peer of the realm, Lord
Strathcona stands as one of the strong
est factors in Canadian politics.
His lordship’s latest project in rela¬
tion to colonization which, it is said,
will shortly be submitted to the gov¬
ernment, is unique. It is >to establish
agricultural and colonial schools where
youths from Great Britain will be
trained in farming, mining and ranch¬
ing, coupled with a military education.
These schools will be established at
Brandon, Winnipeg, Calgary and else¬
where, in buildings erected at govern¬
ment expense. At the end of three
years those government proteges who
give satisfaction will receive diplomas,
in addition to donations of eighty to
160 acres of land.
It is not generally known in the
United States that Lord Strathcona,
as Sir Donald Smith, participated
largely in the early “development” of
our own northwest, and that he has
much capital invested with us, whether
we like it or not. When the decree to
create the “first baron of Strathcona
and Mount Royal” was decided upon
as a jubilee tribute to Sir Donald
Smith it was judged appropriate to
confer upon him the title of Mount
Royal— “Montreal"—In remembrance
of his princely donations to that city.
It was likewise deemed proper to per¬
mit the new baron’s use of the beaver
—Canada’s heraldic animal—the em¬
blem of perseverance, as a charge on
his escutcheon. But when it came to
combining with Mount Royal “Glen
coe, ” the name of Sir Donald’s high
land estate, as was first intended, that
was quite another affair. Glencoe was
an acquisition by purchase, neither
conquest nor inheritance having any¬
thing to do with it, a fact that consti¬
tuted cause for annoyance in the
breasts of some of the sensitive de¬
scendants of the lairds of Glencoe.
The future laird of that estate, how¬
ever, was equal to the emergency.
Glen and Strath are said to be syno¬
nyms for small ravine, while both
coe and cona mean stream, making
Glencoe and Strathcona to mean vir¬
tually the same thing.
When as Donald Alexander Smith,
the adventurous son of a Scotch gen¬
tleman, he preferred the dangers of a
pioneer’s life to the ease of a civil ser¬
vice existence at home, he tramped
from Montreal to the grim shores of
Labrador, voluntarily exiling himself
for fifteen years, where supplies even
from civilization reached him but
twice a year. This experience ulti¬
mately resslted in his appointment as
the governor of the great. Hudson Bay
Fur Company, the oldest company en¬
gaged In business on earth, having
been incorporated by Charles II. in
1670.
Lord Strathcona"’s Canadian home is
one of Montreal’s show places. Its
huge granite pile, with conical towers,
was built a few years ago. Its gallery
of paintings contains one of the most
famous collections of old masters and
modern originals in America, The
history of each canvas or curio and
the rare specimens of oriental art that
adorn the Japanese and other apart¬
ments of this princely home would
each be an interesting theme for a
story. The windows of the great din
ing hall bear portraits of the succes
sive presidents of the Hudson Bay
Company, and are surmounted by the
monogram “H. B. C.”
FOREMOST OF THE YOUNGER
POETS.
If ., Richard r,. , „ Hovey TT were an English
man he would probably he exploited
m a number of our magazines. As he
is an American, his boom” ,s small;
but he can afford to bide his time.
From an article in the December Book
man some facts about his life are
gamed He was born in Bloomington,
in.. 34 yearn ago, but he spent his
boyhood ,n Washington and in Andov
er, Mass He was graduated from
Dartmouth college, and for the last
twelve years has divided his time be
tween New Tork and Washington. Two
years he spent in Pans, where he was
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tlc ’ He traDS,ated Maeterlinck’s plays
and , his version was so faithful that it
reproduced much of the charm of the
original. Hovey s best work ,s the
trilogy on Launcelot and Guinevere,
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hut he has also written “Songs from
Vagabondia,” in collaboration with
Bliss Carman, and a new volume oi
his short poems is just out, entitled
"Along the Trail."
READS LIKE ROMANCE
THE LIFE STORY OF THE LATE
SENATOR BRICE.
A Man of Terrific Energy Who Never
Could Do Things on a Small Scale—
Some Anecdotes of His Career as a
Financier.
The iate Calvin S. Brice was horn at
Denmark, O., Sept. 17, 1845, his father
being William K. Brice, a Presbyterian
minister, and his mother Elizabeth
Stewart Brice. The family remained
at Denmark for three years after the
birth of Calvin, when they moved to
Columbus Grove, Putnam county, in
the same state. When 15 years old
young Brice entered the preparatory
department of Miami university, at
Oxford, O. At the outbreak of the
war he enlisted in Capt, Dodd’s Uni¬
versity company, one of the first to he
formed at the outbreak of the war.
His company remained at Camp Jack
son, Columbus, O., until the fall of
1861, when he returned to college, only
to re-enlist in April, 1862, in another
university organization commanded by
Captain McFarland, which later on was
merged into the Eighty-sixth Ohio in¬
fantry and known as company A. He
remained in the organization during
its summer campaign in West Virginia
and then returned to the university,
where he was graduated in 1863. After
graduating he taught in the public
schools and later on received an ap¬
pointment as auditor of Allen county.
In July, 1864, he again joined the fed¬
eral forces, having received a commis¬
sion as captain of company E, One
Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio infan
try. He served in the field with the
Twenty-third army corps in Tennessee,
Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia
until the close of the war. He was ap¬
pointed lieutenant-colonel, but never
mustered in. He then took a course
in the law department of the Univer
sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and
was admitted to the bar in the spring
of 1866, when he began practice at
Lima, O. His first experience as a
railroad lawyer was in the legal de
partment of the Lake Erie and Louis¬
ville railroad, in which corporation he
acquired a moderate share of stock and
played an energetic part in construc¬
tion of extensions of that road. Brice
Certainly had a remarkable career. It
is no time at all since he hadn’t enough
to flag a bread wagon. It was in
Governor Foster’s time as chief magis¬
trate of Ohio when Brice, then a poor,
hard-up lawyer, managed to get into
Foster’s debt to the extent of about
$2,000. One day Brice came to Foster
and told him the law business didn't
pay, and asked him to appoint him to
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a position where he might make a liv¬
ing.
“Can’t,” said Foster; “you’re a dem¬
ocrat.”
"I admit,” replied Brice, “that I am
slightly a democrat, but if you’d give
me a position I’ll guarantee that no
body will notice it.”
“Can’t do it.” said Foster, “To ap
point a democrat would ruin me”
" B ut you’ll never get your $2,000,”
Kaid Brice. “You might as well ask me
to make a star as to make that $2,000
with m Iavv practice.”
-m tell you what I’ll do,” said Fos
ter. “I am all tangled up with Hock
ing Valley on the New York stock ex
change, and I want somebody i’ll to go
there and look after things, send
you • if you -n go
Brice jumped at the chance. Foster
gave him ?50 0 and’a lot of direc
tions, and impressed upon him solemn
tbe necessity of doing just what he
was told _ If Brice ha(J b jt
ho wouId have take n your order and
lhen brought you anyth i ng ;„ he J please d.
He wonld bave used bis o j gment .
That>8 wbat he dld wlt h Foster’s
Hocking ValIey deal but he clawed
off a $40,000 profit, whereas, if he had
done as Foster told him he would have
lost all. Foster was delighted, and,
like a good old man in a story book, he
gave the young man $20,000. Then
Brice went back to Wall street and
plunged.
Brice’s greatest play was building
the Nickel Plate. He put in every dol
!ar he coubl Set. and from any source.
There came a time, too, when to save
himself from utter ruin, if not from
something worse, he had to sell. He
went to Vanderbilt, whose road the
Nickel Plate paralleled. Vanderbilt
gave him what low natures call “the
laugh.” He wouldn’t buy the Nickel
Plate. He said he could afford to wait
for the first mortgage foreclosure and
buy it from the sheriff,
“If you don’t buy it Jay Gould will.”
said Brice.
“Oh, no, he won’t.” said Vanderbilt,
and then he gave the anxious Brice
a second edition of “the laugh.”
Brice then went to Gould. He knew
that Gould didn’t want the Nickel
Plate, but he had a beautiful scheme
to propose. He wanted to let Vander¬
bilt in for the road, and he knew he
would buy it before he would allow
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Gould to get it. Here came Brice'b 1
strategy. He told Gould that if he
would sit silent and not contradict
neither affirm nor deny any newspaper
article to the effect that he was going
to buy the Nickel Plate, and after this
clamlike silence had continued for a
week, if he would then slowly ride over
the Nickel Plate in an observation ca-,
Vanderbilt would buy the road and
he would give Gould $500,000.
Gould didn’t care for the $500,000,
but he was a jocose speculator, and it
struck him that the whole thing would
be a majestic joke on Vanderbilt. And
that was the story of it. The papers
came out and said Gould was going to
buy the Nickel Plate. Gould, when
asked, kept mum and looked wise. At
the end of a week he meandered, snail
like, over the Nickel Plate, smoking
cigars from the rear end of an ob¬
servation car and had all the air of a
man who was looking at a piece of
property. Stories were wired about
Gould’s trip from every water tank and
way station along the line, and before
Gould had reached Chicago Vanderbilt.,
in a fit of hysterics, wired Brice that
he would take the Nickel Plate. Van¬
derbilt took the Nickel Plate and Brice
was saved.
YOUNGEST CHAPLAIN IN NAVY.
Chaplain Frederick C. Brown, United
States navy, who is on the Iowa for
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her long cruise to Manila, has the dis
tinction of being the youngest chaplain
in the navy. There being no chaplain
on the Oregon, Mr. Brow will be the
only chaplain of the fleet. Chaplain
Brown was appointed to the service
last April, being at that time pastor
of the Unitarian church of Middle
boro, Mass. He is a fluent speaker,
never using notes of any sort, and
having a rapid and forceful delivery
that always makes his addresses inter¬
esting. He is about 25 years old and
a native of Brooklyn. He graduated
from the Meadville (Pa.) Theological
seminary. During the war he was on
the United States steamer Columbia,
where he was very popular with the
men.
WILHELMINA’S BETROTHED.
The long-talked-of betrothal of the
youthful and interesting Queen Wil
helmina of Holland has at last been
virtually decided, the happy fiance and
future Dutch prince consort being his
highness Prince William of Wied, a
kinsman of her majesty.
The queen, as is generally known,
was 18 at her accession, Aug. 31, and
Prince William will be 23 March 26.
He was born at Neuwied, the capital
of his father’s domains, situated in
Rhenish Prussia, and is a lieutenant
of the Prussian regiment of the corps
of the guards stationed at Potsdam.
He belongs to the evangelical church
and the queen to the reformed. The
prince’s parents are H. S. H. the reign¬
ing Prince William, born Aug. 22, 1845,
a Prussian general and hereditary
member of the house of peers, and
H. R. H. Princess Marie of Holland,
born July 5, 1841, only child of the
late Prince Frederic of the Netherlands
and Princess Louise of Prussia, sister
of Emperor William I. The prince
has a younger brother, Victor, born
Dec. 7, 1877, an officer in the Prussian
regiment of Uhlans No. 3 of the guards,
and two young sisters, Princess Louise
and Elizabeth, respectively 18 and 16
years of age. His aunt is the queen
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of Roumania, “Carmen Sylva,” and
his paternal grandmother the Princess
Marie of Nassau and the Netherlands,
born in 1825. The family is a very
wealthy one and is connected with
some half a dozen royal houses.
Go to Sleep Good-Natured.
Now, one word of warning. Try to
keep your face as reposeful as possible
when sleeping. This is the time that
nature repletes the waste of the day.
And if you would be pretty you must
help her. She cannot do it unassisted.
If she wants to fill up the tissues of the
skin at night try ’to remember that
when you go to sleep you must do so
with a reposeful smile on your face.
Afraid to Come Home.
It is said that Dewey, the bravest, of
the brave, acknowledges frankly that
he is afraid to come home and face the
American women.—Griffin Daily News.
Onr Policy of Territorial Expansion.
Extreme annexationists arc advocating the
nddJtioi > or Canada to this country, and think
It. can be accomplished in a peaceful manner
without^excitinp: Such questions a call quarrel for the with wisest, England. states,
grave
mansliip, and pist as dyspepsia, constipation, liver
htomT^Lne^ kidney diseases and malaria call tor a
be done with untried medicines when an old
established preparation is to be had.
If a man sits on a bent pin he is apt to rise
suddenly and speak briefly and pointedly.
TSTo-To-Bac £©* Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco aabit cure, makes weak
tnen strong, blood nuVe 50c. Si. All druggists.
NVe can touch tlie hearts of others when
onr hearts have been touched by Christ.
“Evil Dispositions
Are Early Shown. ”
Just so evil in the blood
comes out in shape of scrof¬
ula, pimples, etc., in children
and young people. Taken in
time it can be eradicated by
using Hood's Sarsaparilla.
In older irregular] pe'tole, the aftermath
of living shows it¬
self in bilious conditions, a
heavy head, a foul mouth,
a general bad feeling.
It is the blood, the impure blood,
Irien'ds, which is the real cause. Purify
that with Hood’s Sarsaparilla and
happiness will reign in your family.
Blood PO!OOn-“I lived in a bed of fire
for years owing to blood poisoning that fol¬
lowed small po;. It broke out ail over my
body, itching inf Jisely. Tried doctors and
hospitals in vain. I tried Hood’s Sarsapa¬
rilla, It helped. I kept at it and was en¬
tirely cured. I could go on the housetops
and shout about it.” Mbs. J. T. Williams.
Carbondale, Pa,
Scrofula Sores-"My baby cheek at two and
months had scrofula sores on physicians’
arm. Local applications and
medicine did little or no good. Hood’s Sar¬
saparilla cured him permanently, He is
now four, with smooth fair skin.’ Jjr.s,
S. S. Wkoten, Farmington, Del.
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Hood's Pills cure fiver ills; non-irritating and the
only cathartic to /alee with Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Carried Off by an Eagle.
“Did you ever see an eagle carry off
a baby to the skies?” said a Broome
: County drummer, who is in New York
for the sights. “There's a fanner
named Vandewater living near Cas¬
cade Valley, in the County I come
from. Last summer he caught a big
eas . te in a tr|lp . Tbe blrd grew tame
and became a. household pet. A few
mornings ago 5Jrs. | Vanclewater went
a neigihbor - B 1 0 borrow some salt,
leaving her small children with the
eagle. When' she returned the eagle
was sitting on a 1 shed with the baby in
its talons.
“A hunter -ame along with a gun.
Before he coqld shoot, the eagle flew
away with tHe baby. The child was
heavy, and it was impossible for the
bird to rise for more titan twenty feet
above the ground, It appeared an
easy mark, Il'ut the man was afraid
to “After shoot on chasing a|-count the of eagle the child. and its
prey for a quarter of a mile, the hunt¬
er shot at the bird and broke one of its
wings. The eagle beat the air furious¬
ly with its remaining wing for a full
minute and then began to fall.
“Mrs. Vandewater rushed for her
crying child, and soon had it in her
arms. The eagle continued to fight,
but it was soon killed with the butt
of the rifle. It measured seven feet
from tip to tip. The child was not
hurt much, but when it grows up it
can prove that I’m a truthful man oc¬
casionally, even if I tint a drummer.—
New York Press.
[tEIIEX TO JUS. TINKHAM NO. 29,602]
“Two yea f rs ago I was a great
sufferer from womb trouble and pro¬
fuse flowing yach month, and tumors
-P- would form
Another Tumor in the womb.
I had four
Removed by tumors in
Lydia £> Pink- two years. I
ham’s Vagrefa- went through
treatment
hie Comitotund with doctors,
but they did
me no good, and I thought I would
have to resort to morphine. could
“ The doctor said that all that
help me was to have an operation and
have the womb removed, but I had
heard of Mrs. Pinkham’s medicine and
decided advice, and to after try i|;, taking and wrote her Vegetable for her
Compound the tumors were expelled
and I began to get stronger right
along, and am ad well as ever before.
Can truly say that I would never had
gotten well had it'not been for Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Compound.” — Marv A.
Stahl, Watsontowk, Pa.
What Mrs, Pinkham’s Letter DM.
“ Dear Mrs. Pi.n kham— After follow¬
ing the directions given in your kind
letter for the treatment of leueorrheea,
I can say that I have been entirely
cured by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's
remedies, and wilt gladly recommend
them to my friends.
“ Thanking youifor your kindness, I
am gratefully yours, !y.” A. B. Davids,
Binghamptox, N.
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CONSUMPTION
A ITER VOLUNTEER^ OUT -|
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Orders Have Been Issued Froi i
the War Department.
THEY ARE VERY SWEEPINf
Three Georgia Cities Selected A S
Mustering Out Points.
The war department issued the fol¬
lowing statement Monday: tlie
‘ ‘Orders have been issued for
muster out of the following volunteer
regiments:
“At Savannah, Ga.—Third Georg
batteries A, B, C, D, Maine artillei yi
202d New York volunteers.
“At their present camps at August a,
Ga., and Greenville, S. G.—Third Al¬
abama, Third Connecticut, Fifth Mns
sachusetts, Thirty-fifth Michigan, F if¬
teenth Minnesota, Fourth New Jersey>
201st New York,203d New York, Tet th
Ohio,First Rhode Island,Second West
Virginia. vol¬
“This order discharges all the
unteers remaining in the United
States.”
The orders will muster out about
16,000 volunteer troops, including ah
such troops now in camp in the Unit ed
States and the Third Georgia, at Neu
vitas; the Two Hundred and Second
New York, at Gnanajay, and four bat¬
teries of Maine artillery, now at Ha¬
vana. They will be mustered out at
Savannah, Ga. This will reduce the
army strength to 110,000 men, of
which 30,000 are stationed in Cuba.
All the volunteer troops in Porto Rico
have been previously discharged and
the only volunteers still in the service
are either in the Philippines or in
Cuba. No action will be taken w/itfi
regard acts to those the pending troops until congij Ifor ess
upon measures
the reorganization of the regular aniLY
T he enactment of the Hull bill, the
war department says, will result 111
*he mus ter out of all the remaining
volunteers. They will be given the
first opportunity for re-enlistment m
the regular service, however, and it is
the expectation and hope of the war
department that a majority of them
will avail themselves of this privilege,
there being a strong desire to secure
the benefit of their services.
Regarding the order a Washington
special special says: The order for the
muster Thlrd Georgia came
as R surprise to the members of the
Georgia delegation. Some time muiiter (igo
there was talk of the possible
out of the regiment, but nothing hals
been heard from that since the regi¬
ment got to Cuba. tlie
The present order is due both to
policy of the department to must*
out all volunteers not very mucp
needed, and to the desire on the part
of the department officials to put an
end to the importunities of the soldie: s
f° r discharges. These applicatioi 18
have been coming in steadily, much ' o
the disgust of the adjutant general arjd
other officials, and the desire to gjet
free from them was doubtless instru¬
mental, in some degree, to the rnnstpr
out order of Monday.
SCORES BOOK AGENTS.
Atlanta, Ga., Methodists Want Barbee
and Smith To Resign.
An exciting meeting of the Metblo-*
dist ministers of Atlanta took place
Monday morning in the basemeiit.of
Trinity parsonage. The subject jof
discussion was the present difficulty
in tlie Methodist Publishing House
matter.
The ministers passed resolutions
asking the hook committee to demand
the resignation of Barbee & S>niih,
agents of the Methodist’ Episcopal
publishing house at Nashville, Ttenn.
ABERNATHY GOES TO PEN.
Private Found Guilty of nanslau'ghter
Gets Heavy Sentence.
A Washington dispatch says: Private
Hampton Abernathy, Compank A,
Third North Carolina volunteer in
fantry, having been tried and Ifouud
guilty of manslaughter by a general
eourtmartial convened at Camp Has¬
kell, Macon, Ga., has discharged been sentenced from
to be dishonorably
the service of the United States and to
be confined in Leavenworth peniten¬
tiary for fifteen years.
NEGROS ISLAND SURRENDERS.
The United States Flag Run Up and
Natives Are Greatly Pleased.
A Manila, special says: White the
guns on the city walls and thpse on
board the ships of Rear Admiral
Dewey’s fleet in the bay fired a salute
in honor of Washington’s birthday,
four commissioners from the island of
Negros had an interview with Major
General Otis and informed him that
the American flag had already been
raised over that island, and that fits
inhabitants were ready, anxious And
willing to accept any proposition the
Americans might offer. The insur¬
gents have been driven front the
island entirely.
MR. HITCHCOCK INSTALLEDj
New Secretary of the Interior it For¬
mally Sworn In.
A Washington dispatch srys: Mr
Ethan Ellen Hitchcock, of Missouri,
recently United States ambassador to
Russia, took the prescribed oath of
office Monday and entered upon his
duties as secretary of the interior, as
successor to Mr. Bliss, who sent in his
resignation some weeks ago.